/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 * IBM - Initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.internal.core.dom.parser.c;

import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IASTNode;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IScope;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IType;

/**
 * The CImplicitTypedef is used to represent implicit typedefs that exist on the translation
 * unit but are not actually part of the physical AST created by CDT.
 *
 * An example is the GCC built-in typedef:  typedef char * __builtin_va_list;
 *
 * @author dsteffle
 */
public class CImplicitTypedef extends CTypedef {
    private IType type=null;
    private char[] name=null;
    private IScope scope=null;

    public CImplicitTypedef(IType type, char[] name, IScope scope) {
        super(null);
        this.type = type;
        this.name = name;
        this.scope = scope;
    }

    @Override
	public IType getType() {
        return type;
    }

    @Override
	public String getName() {
        return String.valueOf(name);
    }

    @Override
	public char[] getNameCharArray() {
        return name;
    }

    @Override
	public IScope getScope() {
        return scope;
    }

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IType#isSameType(org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IType)
     */
//    public boolean isSameType(IType t) {
//        if (t == this)
//            return true;
//        if (t instanceof ITypedef)
//            try {
//                IType temp = getType();
//                if (temp != null)
//                    return temp.isSameType(((ITypedef) t).getType());
//                return false;
//            } catch (DOMException e) {
//                return false;
//            }
//
//            IType temp;
//            temp = getType();
//            if (temp != null)
//                return temp.isSameType(t);
//            return false;
//    }

    /*
     * (non-Javadoc)
     * @see java.lang.Object#clone()
     */
//    public Object clone() {
//        IType t = null;
//        t = (IType) super.clone();
//        return t;
//    }

    @Override
	public IASTNode getPhysicalNode() {
        return null;
    }

	@Override
	public IASTNode[] getDeclarations() {
		return IASTNode.EMPTY_NODE_ARRAY;
	}

	@Override
	public IASTNode getDefinition() {
		return null;
	}
}
